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| * Hallo! I am currently living on the prairie, a reluctant capitalist with an unrealized secret socialist side. I am currently (again) a graduate student of biology. I have since found a previously unknown passion for microbial ecology and bioinformatics. Soon, I will begin a new master’s topic that deals with development of an undergraduate curriculum in bioinformatics. * I have great passion for the natural world and fucking love evolutionary biology and natural history. Consider myself to be a bit of a left-thinking individual. I have multifarious and often ephemeral hobbies; some of the more lasting of them are home brewing, herb-growing, and geocaching. I play guitar poorly, like the ancient world and old Rome. Can probably out drink you, can sound like anybody if I try hard enough, have a folder full of voice-talent auditions, am introspective, a fast-typer. Oh, and oh yeah, I am Irish. Top that. * Career aspirations are toward a medical degree. In fact, I was on a wait-list to get into medical school last fall but I didn’t make the cut that time round—so we are back in graduate school for a different masters’ focus until I can apply again for 2008. But, in the meantime I am hoping to win the lottery. * What I am into? Really a fan of the Wikipedia, and try to make edits whenever they are due. You can check me out here as frenkmelk to see some of my edits and contributions. Hey, I am no copy-editor, but I know what I know, eh? I have been reviewing my X-files lately too. The last 3 seasons especially--I am a Doggett fan! He is a skeptic! * Recently, I have really rediscovered my zeal for my science. Being back in school has really awakened me to how much I really used to love life sciences. Lately, I have been involved with some other graduate students and professors to try to form a green-eco friendly club on campus to reduce carbon footprints and enforcing the three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle and all that) this summer we will be appealing to the administration and others to push for a greener campus. Evolutionary biology is another great passion of mine and something that I very strongly about. Likewise, I think it may in order to take a more radical stance when it comes informing the layperson or non-expert just exactly what evolution is and what it is not. In many instances, it appears the evangelical right has taken the initiative on this matter. Also, on the biology front, I am into panspermia--the hypothesis that life came to Earth via comets in the archean era. Also, in general the speculated early ecology of the Earth I have found really interesting as it likely gave rise to life as we realize it today. * I am always up for meeting those who have some capacity for EXTREME irony and are fellow wits and trivia whizzes. I do not, however, espouse any total doctrine of any party though, I will vote with the Dems and am intrigued by libertarianism too. Also, I am all about empiricism and have been trying to make myself a more objective person in my old age. I like to compose short absurd stories with which I amuse my friends. I have been known to write erotica about Illinois politicians—who knows, they may amuse you too. I am an avid documentarian and have volumes of pictures, video, and years of journaling to prove it. I am not a religious person—was raised Irish-Catholic but consider myself an agnostic at present (but shh! don’t tell my parents!) However, I am fascinated with mythology and its importance and impact on cultures, just a shame that people use their doctrines to affect and subjugate others. I am also fascinated by how people are willing to delude themselves and remain willfully ignorant of the world around them simply because they are tethered to some arcane system of beliefs from which they cannot stray. I don't care what you believe in...Just be able to tell me why you believe it. | |
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